[GRLUG] anyone else seeing crazy speeds from Comcast?

[john-thomas richards]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:30:30PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 10:09 -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> > This morning I am getting amazing speed from Comcast.  My download
> > speed is 12,640kbps and upload is 1,827kbps.  See here: 
> > http://www.speedtest.net/result/306938487.png.
> > 
> > Man, oh, man, I hope this continues.  I wonder if Comcast is feeling
> > much pressure from AT&T's U-Verse service.  I have had a number of
> > sales reps knock on my door about it.
> 
> Yes, AT&T's U-verse is putting pressure on Comcast.
> 
> Its shown up here... along with the new cables strung along.
> 
> My only real problem with Comcast now, is not LAG. LAG is very minimal
> now a day. My problem is them severing network sessions I have on a
> regular basis.
> 
> I typically have 30-70 ssh sessions open. When the "reset" the DOCSIS
> equipment, all of my session just stop responding and I have to wait for
> timeouts to properly end the sessions.
> 
> This has happened as often as once every 10 minutes, to 3 days between
> issues. But it always happens sooner or later.
> 
> I have been getting in excess of 1.1Mbytes/sec (as much as 1.8MBytes/sec
> actually) for a few years on Comcasts stuff, but only for GigaNews.
> 
> I also had a special Motorola Surfboard... one that was slightly
> modified and had an non-stock firmware (it had shell access to it). But
> since that failed a while ago, I now have a Motorola SurfBoard
> SB5101a... no firmware revisions available for it (yet) with enhanced
> capability.
> 
> But yes, I am getting very good speeds, I just wish my SSH sessions
> wouldn't just DROP.

I, too, get "stuck" connections with SSH.  I thought it was the other
end (net connection) that was causing it since I almost never ssh out
from my home, only in to my home.
-- 
john-thomas
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